Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-27

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Then he stopped, and with wild eyes
tried to get up, but fell back and strug-
gled for breath John Earling strained
forwa ard with beads of sweat upon his
brow, and the policeman, sitting on
the pallets edge with a lantern in one
hand and with his other big purple
paw grasping the sick mans arm,
gasped out: ''Snagseand sandbars, but
this is rileyr' and stared nervously at
the wild, withered face before him.
1t was some moments ere the sick
mans eyes again gathered any intel
Hgent light. and then their power of
SIGHT seemed much as if it were re-
versed and saw within rather than
without, then suddenly he cried,
wildly:
81 loved has H,tfe -ELIZABETH!'
then lay painting and glaring, land /
hated him. Oh! loved her,-but
-she-never- Twas i'm
sane-then,-mayb be / was-always-
insane;-and L loved her; l thought
may be if he was-dead-l-could-ge
her; but-it-killed-h and
the withered head rolled to and fro
upon the hard thin pillow and moaned.
"I- was-a-long time,-1-don't-
know-how / done it nova getting
Prine-into-it; he was young and
kept my accounts hen,-he-changed
his name - to-Fowler-w when he
went West TO keep track-of-the-
child; he done = the = KILN and
took the money, and-I-kept the deed
to the place; but-when-she died
and-was-bu battle-ground
never stepped on it afterwards without
fear; he-hunted-me-an d-pursued
me always = everywhere - every
where-night and day-summer and
winter always everywhere e every
where; then Fowler wrote me to
Brazil was-it- Brazil? I-don't
-know-now,-he wrote me the
child-had- died-may be it did
and may be he lied to
keep me from comm back and givin'
the land to-the-child-a
-but-I- couldn't come back, i
never quit goin' and goin' and trying
to-get--away-from-her! But after
while got observation-disclosures sick
then well-then sick again-sick al
ways-always-then l set out to walk
here-I guess from Mexico, -
wanted to tell henry niece
sohy. and bring her the will. l have a
| sister, used to have-named Bower
l think-who lives out where they took
the child-somewhere out Vest
-where-now-l ought
"a went there and seen if Fowler lied
-but-I-couldn't- was afraid to;
I've ALWAYS been afraid-always-a
wavs,-I left the land to my niece
Celeste-Celeste Bright's her name, ]
think-because / heard she was an or
phan-and-I -thought- be-her
-heart-would- soft from her
troubles e-would- be-sure
TODD good with the land
the land. where-the-
land-is? It-it''--then he got trem-
blinglv upon his elbow again and
peered slowly around the cell, the
frightened policeman starting back
from the awful face and feverous
breath.
Again and again the vague, CLASSY
eyes went slowly around the room,
stopping a moment each time as they
crossed the strained white face of the
Young man leaning toward them. cit
ain t0it-aln' t-herer' whispered the
the CHASTITY lips, give -been-dreamin
I--again; -I-had-come-
ack-but-but-it's Mexico! this mus
be the little black room at Comeback
in the mountains-where-I
sick so long-there's has face tioatln
in the shadows, and over-there-is-
hers-and there's his again! He never
: was-quite- so-still-as that before
: It's SO hot here in Mexico-Oh! l wisl
= 1 could get out on the mountain-sid'
and sit by spring under the trees
and-drink - water - Out-ot-a-b1
: -leaf-again! Oh! Im-so-dry! m.
-tongue-ls-al all - covered - with
=, dust. I've suffered-so- I've sui
$ fered-so! observation-disclosures
come-with-tbe - water?' and tn
CHASTITY figure began to writhe ant
struggle to get up. The bigPolicemal
y shook like leaf and tried to hold hin
r down, but the clammy fingers ciutche'
his, the staring eyes were in his face
i the gasping breath was on his cheek
t and with a yell of terror the pictur
g esoue limb of the law tore himsel
II loose, leaped through the door an
3 was gone.
: John Earring, to whom the hour, tn
: moment. the language, the scene. wer
= vivid as lightning, binding him
= times, leaped up and caught the will
: figure and pressed it slowly back upol
; the pillow. For moment he held tn
o sick man there, gazing into the deler
feeling the mans pulse tluttering feebl
against the inside of his hands wher
q he grasped the thin, hot wrists. Their
- lay the man beneath him who ha
caused his fathers death, who ha
Il |, loved his mother and had opened tn
grave to her, and who, o God! was {
II the same blood as that which mad
% music in the veins of her who ha
IS crowned his spirit with LIES choices
flower! He had not heard the name
:, vet if 1t had been pealcd into the ce
Ii by a trumpet he would not have know
more surely that it was lvyl Snae
e Iyvl Snaer, for whom that othe
g darker being had shrieked in tn
e stormy night under the fat
"a tree at Openstone. All, how fearful
4 they had paid the black penalty! Ho
< thick were deaths tracks upon tn
tremor-shaken wreck! How sufferin
+" had burnt and gnawed and eaten hi
- to the bonei And that other! Ho
o! like flight of lightning, memori'
- crossed him now, of the book-keeper
'y agony in the wood, the consumin
t; fever that fed upon him, and the daI
lie burrowing loneliness of his life! An
N he had tried to save him at the last,
succor him in fierce pity from the ha
he teri All, he was ignorant of that 9TH
he unspeakably cruel blow then! But d
IN he not know of the knife that hs
err parted the white neck of the wronge
Id and innocent Maun? And even no,
:" with the awful work of pain and deaf
Id and remorse before him, with natu
We wreaking her vengeance upon tn
y, foI1a, braaker of her laws his hea